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Travel fantasy: Shelter Co.

Do you like camping? I've never been a huge camper, but Shelter Co. looks pretty amazing. It's a pop-up lodging service, born out of a nostalgia for the days of summer camp. They set up fully furnished European-style canvas tents, complete with Pendleton blankets, a carpeted floor and bedside tables, and you just show up to stargaze, roast marshmallows and play games. It's like camping for wusses! Just my style!

Every vacation that my husband and I go on either involves camping (in tents) or backpacking. We try to cram as much adventure into each and every day. There's nothing like waking up in a cozy tent with the sun shining through the canvas. Although, now that I'm getting a little older, I may have to get a thicker sleeping bag pad.

I am not much of a camper. I've never officially been TRUE camping. However, last summer we took our family to Kinnikinnick Farm and had a blast. It is a working farm outside of Chicago. They have canvas tents and provide linens, etc. The kids LOVED it and we already booked a weekend for next summer. The farm we stayed on provides produce for many of the restaurants we love in Chicago. I HIGHLY recommend something as such! LOVED IT (and believe me I'm not a camper!).

Featherdowns (the company that provides the canvas tents) has a few farm locations in the US (one is close-ish to you in the Catskills). Toby would LOVE it! http://www.featherdown.com/en-us/farm-stay/ny/walton-delaware-county/stony-creek/our-story.html

Oh my goodness - that would be truly wonderful and a rustic romantic getaway - sign me up please with that special someone?! Okay...I suppose that would also require me to have a special someone, but this is all hypothetical anyways...Much love,B

So inline with this and glamping; you should check out how medievalist camp when they go to big gatherings. It's unreal how lush and detailed these camps and tent are. Look up The 'SCA' and Pennsic to see what I mean.

I recently took a trip with my boyfriend where we hiked into the camp-- 3 miles with huge backpacks-- and I did not like that at all. We've been camping five or so times now and it is just not relaxing for me. I get stressed out about it and twice I've gotten ticks and or chiggers! One thing I did last time that I will definitely do next time is pop a couple of Ambien at bed time. I was out like a light instead of miserably tossing all night.

We tried to camp in the backyard one night,until we heard a chain being dragged on the ground. We were the only people home and this is out in the country so we had no idea what it could be. It didn't sound like an animal! So after abruptly gathering our supplies, we ran to the house as fast as we could, hoping not to run into some crazy meth head who had broken into the yard (Oh, Oklahoma).

The next morning, we went out to check out our "campsite" and found something had walked right up the side of the tent and put some claw marks in it! So glad I wasn't in it when that happened!

I LOVE camping. Comparatively, I'm a hardcore camper. When I was a camp counselor in college for the Girl Scouts, I was the one doing the "Gilligan's Island" group where cooked 2 meals a day over an open fire and wove our own hammocks (no tents). It was great.

I could LIVE in one of the shelter co. tents - I think it's my dream =) Neat-o.

Sunset magazine is pretty big on glamping...in fact, we ran a November cover story (one of two) on fall camping in the West, which you can read here if you like: http://www.sunset.com/travel/fall-travel-experiences-00418000079600/. Kelsey Sheofsky of Shelter Co. styled the shoot.

I pretty much grew up in a tent. Love love love. It is still a very important and special part of my life. We live in the northwoods of Minnesota so it is extraordinary. My husband even winter camps every February...I am not that hard core. Ha ha.

I wrote about a fun trip this summer on my blog dinaDuluth...went a day early with a girlfriend and it was a hoot. Check out Voyageurs National Park if you haven't already. A hidden gem for sure. http://wp.me/p2pH9C-9f

I do not get camping. There are always condos right next to the campgrounds. And, exactly who in these pictures did all of the schlepping? Especially the adirondack. Although, I could almost small the bacon and eggs.

I've always been scared by it, city-girl as I am, but I finally gave in this summer and actually enjoyed it! I wrote about it here www.lecatch.com/2012/07/great-outdoors.html It was in Santa Barbara on the beach, so that helped!

Ah another Minnesota gal! You can't beat the Northwoods, especially the NE corner. I have yet to go to the Boundary waters, and portage that. I have now moved to Utah, and have fallen IN LOVE with backpacking. Every weekend I want to spend backpacking in the mountains with my boyfriend. :)Cheers,Jackie

This is SO cool. Such a clever idea (and so stylish) I can't stand it! I did A LOT of camping with the family growing up... but now that I've grown up I would say I "like" camping... but I don't "love" camping. Every once in a while is fun though ;)

I've always loved the theory of camping far more than the actual experience, so this seems like it would be right up my alley! It would get rid of the bits I'm not such a fan of (cramped tents, set up, tear down, etc.) so that I could focus on the bits I do enjoy (campfire food, singalongs, stargazing).

I'm not usually a big camping fan (I get scared to go to the toilet at night and I hate being woken at 6am with the sun blazing on the tent...) but this is gorgeous and so romantic! Love! http://thegoogleyear.blogspot.com.au/

While this all looks very glamorous and fun, my camping style is much different. I really like back-country camping. In California you just grab a permit, grab a sleeping bag and a light pack, then sleep wherever you want to in a wild forest or coastal meadow. It's a little frightening at times, but very intimate and gorgeous.

Put all your stuff in the car. Drive somewhere over roads that make you nauseous. Take all your stuff out of the car. Get it dirty. Fail to sleep. Put all your now dirty stuff back into the car. Take it home. Wash it.

I love camping! This past summer, I went on a 14 mile biking hike with my boyfriend and our friends. It was tough and I looked like I had lived in woods for my entire life when we were done but, in the end, I was so glad we did it! I really learned a lot about myself!I would love to go to a place like Shelter Co. It looks so beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

I love camping, but real campaign. Stumbled across this via ValetMag and I was curious to see what it was about. It's a cute idea if you've never been camping before or if you're afraid of nature but I wouldn't really call this "camping". It's a minimal bed and breakfast at best.

The European tents look great and I can see how these might invoke a feeling of nostalgia for some people. However, I think I'll stick to true camping: Hiking for miles with all of my gear, pitching a tend, chopping wood for a fire and surviving with little to no human contact. Just me and nature.

This is what almost all the upscale "lodges" look like in Southern Africa. I LOVE IT! Having spent months backpacking around the US, I love me some tents and nature, and I definitely appreciate the fancier versions.

Ahhh - it's so cold out right now and you have made me so happy to think about camping again in the spring. Our Bell Tent only had one outing last summer (Crappy weather & bad planning) but I can't wait for 2013 and the weather picking up, and getting back out in the tent. xxx

oh, this looks delightful. Did you know there is a place in Santa Barbara, CA that has something very similar to this-- in the foothills by the beach! Check it out: http://www.elcapitancanyon.com/gallery/

OK...I love your blog and I've been following it for a while now!! But this post was so cool!! Growing up we camped A LOT! Part of my childhood was spent in Scotland and one year we camped to Switzerland where we spent the summer...and along the way, in France, we stayed at a "hotel" that was all wall tents! As an 11 year old, a multi-roomed tent was amazing and this post reminds me of that feeling!

How amazing is this?! I wish this service extended to Ohio, however, it's given me a surge of inspiration for a summer camping trip. I might not be able to make anything quite as lovely, but I can try! Thanks for posting this!

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I severely dislike the outdoors and all things camping. But if someone sets it up for me, I might do it! My fiance is always begging me to go. Maybe this is a great compromise!laurenofthedoxey.blogspot.com

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We try to cram as much adventure into each and every day. There's nothing like waking up in a cozy tent with the sun shining through the canvas. Although, now that I'm getting a little older, I may have to get a thicker sleeping bag pad.